Economics, Poverty & Development – Page 57

Apr 26 2017

Christianity and the End of Ritualized Murder and Sexual Exploitation in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 26, 2017

Today we hear a lot about sex trafficking and the horrors that victims experience. The Christian church is today fighting this evil practice, but fighting sexual abuse is not a new thing for the body of Christ. Here with us today is Vijay Jayaraj, Research Associate for Developing Countries for the Cornwall Alliance for the […]

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Apr 18 2017

Exiting the Paris Climate Agreement

By E. Calvin Beisner / April 18, 2017

Scant evidence of expected benefit means Scott Pruitt is right Washington Times, Monday, April 17, 2017 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appeared on “Fox & Friends” April 13 and said, “Paris is something we really need to look at closely, because it’s something we need to exit, in my opinion.” Why? “It’s a bad

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Apr 13 2017

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Abortion and Forced Sterilization in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 13, 2017

Over 35 million children have been aborted worldwide so far this year. Abortion numbers for India are hard to gauge because many don’t get reported, but it’s more than half-a-million babies, and could be as many as seven million. The preference for male children is strong in India, leading to sex selective abortions and significantly fewer female children. This has

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Apr 10 2017

DDT and Malaria: Why India has a lower rate of Infection

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 10, 2017

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Mar 29 2017

Why Does ExxonMobil Want the U.S. to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord?

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 29, 2017

The Financial Times reports that ExxonMobil “has written to the Trump administration urging it to keep the US in the Paris climate accord ….” Why? The main reason is that staying in the Paris accord offers “the opportunity to support greater use of natural gas, which creates lower carbon dioxide emissions than coal when burnt for power generation.”

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Mar 6 2017

Fracking: It helps Americans, hurts terrorists

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 6, 2017

Oh, my! Few things can better communicate the enormous benefits of the boom in U.S. shale oil and gas production from fracking than this. The boom not only drives costs for American energy consumers to record lows, but also drives down revenues for OPEC, the leading source of financial support to the world’s biggest and most

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Feb 17 2017

A Film that Could Revolutionize Your Whole Perception of How to Help the Poor

By E. Calvin Beisner / February 17, 2017

Nearly thirty years ago I published my first book on Christian economics, Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity. The last three chapters dealt with the nature and causes of poverty and how churches and individuals can help the poor. I said some fairly controversial things then about how

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Feb 10 2017

Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science

By Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. / February 10, 2017

As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human health and the natural environment. We should explore new alternative energy sources, always seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms. We should prioritize providing electricity for the 1.2 billion people who don’t

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Jan 26 2017

Climate Change, Caring for Creation, and Evangelicals

By E. Calvin Beisner / January 26, 2017

Last year Mitchell Hescox, CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, teamed up with television meteorologist Paul Douglas to write Caring for Creation: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment (Bethany House). Their hearts are in the right place, but their understanding of global climate-change science is seriously deficient, and the result could

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Jan 20 2017

The Trump Climate Dump: Why It Doesn’t Matter if Even 100% of Scientists Agree on Global Warming

By Roy W. Spencer / January 20, 2017

Given current technologies, it makes no sense to destroy $100 Trillion in wealth this century for an unmeasurable reduction in warming. The more efficiently we can do those things, the greater humanity prospers. Affordable energy is part of that efficiency. Everything humans do requires energy. Everything. But when human prosperity suffers, people die. So, can

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